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SoCal Focus is a blog about the people, places, and issues in and around Southern California.

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Consumers should welcome the victory. Mismanagement of groundwater in the Central Basin would have frightening consequences for the county's water security.
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What to leave in and what to leave out? It is up to us to decide, and it is those decisions that make a life.
It was an L.A. November, and the air was for an hour still bright.
The future got older faster and faster. The early seasons of Star Trek and Dr. Who are "paleofutures" that today seem antique.
The Virginian-Pilot, November 23, 1963 issue announcing the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The assassination of John Kennedy, like so many key events of the '60s, shaped the lives of those like me born in that decade. But we never quite figured out how--and maybe we aren't meant to.
Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in Tanauan, Leyte, Philippines walk amidst the rubble days after the storm.
Less than a month after the central Philippines was hit by a powerful 7.2 earthquake, the even more destructive Category 5 Typhoon Haiyan tore through the region on November 7. Across the Pacific, the Filipino American and medical communities, immediat...
The Ventura Pier. | Photo: Courtesy Hank Tovar
We need to know where we came from. And we need to be reminded in the bright light of day. The Ventura Pier offers a reason why.
Frequent returns to the smaller museums of Long Beach and north Orange County are a prerequisite for the "accidental" pleasures found at the Grand Central Art Center and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in downtown Santa Ana and the Mucken...
Unless the FBI investigation details the routes by which tainted political money flows through southeast Los Angeles County, making Ron Calderon the star of Filmscam won't mean very much at all.
The Proud Bird Restaurant near LAX.
The Proud Bird Restaurant, an L.A. landmark and noted community space for nearly 50 years, is on the verge of closing. We'll lose a lot more than a place to eat.
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The critics have the right to their words. They just don't have the right to take the words out of your hands.
I spent Sunday afternoon in conversation about the making of places in Southern California. We met with a distinguished panel of experts, academics, and commentators at the Rancho Center on Bixby Hill in Long Beach.
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